Updated 3/26/2012: Andy Leed, manager of College of Agriculture and Life Sciences greenhouses for the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station, took a series of thermal images during the titan arum flowering. Below was taken Saturday 3/17/2012 at 8 p.m. Andy reported: “It doesn’t look like there’s any significant heating at this point.”
By Sunday night, after the spath opened, things had heated up. Here’s the base of the spadix:
Top of the spadix Sunday night
The base of the spadix had cooled off some by Monday morning.
Top of the spadix had cooled off as well.
Viewing male flowers Monday night through portal cut into spathe to collect pollen.
